20/20 Vision: What can we Learn from Kodak and eBay for Big Data Analytics?
In the medical field, an ophthalmologist and optometrist perform visual acuity tests to check vision as well as structures and functions of the human eye. The metric 20/20 represents normal vision and...
View Article5 Steps to Making BI Smarter in Big Data Analytics
In recent months, I met with the Business Intelligence (BI) teams in different countries to discuss Big Data Analytics. What transpired from the meetings is clear lack of awareness of what Big Data...
View ArticleHow Big Data Analytics Enhances Macro-economic Planning – A Point of View...
I was always curious about the connection behind the so called Butterfly Effect, which paints a theory that a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon forests can cause a tornado on the other side of...
View ArticleNext Wave of Business Intelligence: Prospering from Discovery Analytics
Recently, I came across a review of the book “Average Is Over - Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation” by Tyler Cowen that highlights how the global labour market is changing...
View ArticleMaking Better Decisions Through Discovery Analytics
According to John Maynard Keynes, the famous macro-economist , when choosing between the alternatives we often fall back on our motive or sentiment or chance, because mathematical basis is inadequate...
View ArticleThe Need for Tactfulness in Big Data Analytics
Big Data allows companies to market to specific customers more so than previous attempts at targeted marketing. Marketers get excited about the readiness with which variety of data sources are...
View ArticleSchema Freedom with NOSQL, but Not Free of Information Governance
The Big Data movement is giving rise to runaway growth of new file systems and databases with various types of data access mechanisms that attempt to link connotations with SQL but differ widely in...
View ArticleWhy Net Promoter Score is Not a True Measure of Customer Satisfaction
Among all the customer satisfaction measures, Net Promoter Score (NPS) stands out as the Real McCoy. We can see why, because NPS is considered to provide direct contribution to the bottom line of the...
View ArticleNew Privacy Laws Imply Data Scientist by Day, Lawyer by Night!
Australia’s newest privacy legislation came into force in March this year. If you have not reviewed it then, you are missing a key component of the evolving digital economy that is impacting everyone....
View ArticleLessons for Data Lakes from a Tale of Two Seas
A friend of mine sent an interesting article that highlights the differences between the Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee which I reproduce below with due credit to its original author. It provides a...
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